The institutes of Vishnu (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880)

XLV, 12.

TRANSMIGRATION.

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XLV.
1. Now after having undergone the torments in-
flicted in the hells, and having passed through the
animal bodies, the sinners are born as human
beings with (the following) marks (indicating their
crime) :
2. A criminal in the highest degree shall have
leprosy;
3. A killer of a Brahma^a, pulmonary consump-
tion ;
4. A drinker of spirits, black teeth ;
5. A stealer of gold (belonging to a Brahma/za),
deformed nails ;
6. A violator of his spiritual teacher’s bed, a
disease of the skin ;
7. A calumniator, a stinking nose;
8. A malignant informer, stinking breath ;
9. A stealer of grain, a limb too little;,
10. One who steals by mixing (i. e. by taking
good grain and replacing the same amount of bad
grain in its stead), a limb too much ;
11. A stealer of food, dyspepsia;
12. A stealer of words \ dumbness ;
XLV. 2-31. M. XI, 49-52 ; Y. Ill, 209-211. — 32, 33. M. XI,
53, 54-
2. According to a text of Natatapa, which Nand. quotes in
explanation of this Sutra, connection with the mother is punished
with ‘ falling or incurable epilepsy,’ when the organ falls of; con-
nection with a daughter is punished with red epilepsy; connection
with a daughter-in-law, with black leprosy ; and connection with
a sister, with yellow leprosy.
12. 11, e. according to Kulluka and Nand., ‘ one who studies
the Veda without permission to do so; ’ or it may denote,
according to Nand., ‘a stealer of a book,’ or ‘one who fails to
communicate information which he is able to give.’
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